On Popular Music

Author : Keith Negus
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819563101
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music in Theory written by Keith Negus and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively contribution to the debates that are central to popular music studies.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book #On Popular Music written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by . This book was released on 1942* with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nate Sloan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190056657
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Switched on Pop written by Nate Sloan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.

Author : Fabian Holt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226350401
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genre in Popular Music written by Fabian Holt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of the motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? brought an extraordinary amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of criticism from some aficionados who felt the album’s inclusion of more modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists argued, wasn’t bluegrass, but “roots music,” a new and, indeed, more overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, change, and die out? In Genre in Popular Music, Fabian Holt provides new understanding as to why we debate music categories, and why those terms are unstable and always shifting. To tackle the full complexity of genres in popular music, Holt embarks on a wide-ranging and ambitious collection of case studies. Here he examines not only the different reactions to O Brother, but also the impact of rock and roll’s explosion in the 1950s and 1960s on country music and jazz, and how the jazz and indie music scenes in Chicago have intermingled to expand the borders of their respective genres. Throughout, Holt finds that genres are an integral part of musical culture—fundamental both to musical practice and experience and to the social organization of musical life.

Author : Roy Shuker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041523509X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Popular Music written by Roy Shuker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the variety of genres that make up pop music, Roy Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music such as, music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures.Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular music has been studied and the difficulties and debates which surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music.Drawing on the recent work of music scholars and the popular music press, Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music, including music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures, the musician as 'star', music journalism, and the reception and consumption of popular music. This fully revised and updated second edition includes:*case studies and lyrics of artists such as Shania Twain, S Club 7, The Spice Girls and Fat Boy Slim* the impact of technologies including on-line delivery and the debates over MP3 and Napster* the rise of DJ culture and the changing idea of the 'musician'* a critique of gender and sexual politics and the discrimination which exists in the music industry* moral panics over popular music including the controversies surrounding artists such as Marilyn Manson and Ice-T* a comprehensive discography, guide to further reading and directory of websites.

Author : Brian Longhurst
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745631622
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music and Society written by Brian Longhurst and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Popular Music and Society, fully revised and updated, continues to pioneer an approach to the study of popular music that is informed by wider debates in sociology and media and cultural studies. Astute and accessible, it continues to set the agenda for research and teaching in this area. The textbook begins by examining the ways in which popular music is produced, before moving on to explore its structure as text and the ways in which audiences understand and use music. Packed with examples and data on the contemporary production and consumption of popular music, the book also includes overviews and critiques of theoretical approaches to this exciting area of study and outlines the most important empirical studies which have shaped the discipline. Topics covered include: • The contemporary organisation of the music industry; • The effects of technological change on production; • The history and politics of popular music; • Gender, sexuality and ethnicity; • Subcultures; • Fans and music celebrities. For this new edition, two whole new chapters have been added: on performance and the body, and on the very latest ways of thinking about audiences and the spaces and places of music consumption. This second edition of Popular Music and Society will continue to be required reading for students of the sociology of culture, media and communication studies, and popular culture.

Author : David Machin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446241343
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Popular Music written by David Machin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ′code book′ of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers. Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.

Author : David Cashman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429012667
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Popular Music written by David Cashman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fundamentals of popular music performance for students in contemporary music institutions. Drawing on the insights of performance practice research, it discusses the unwritten rules of performances in popular music, what it takes to create a memorable performance, and live popular music as a creative industry. The authors offer a practical overview of topics ranging from rehearsals to stagecraft, and what to do when things go wrong. Chapters on promotion, recordings, and the music industry place performance in the context of building a career. Performing Popular Music introduces aspiring musicians to the elements of crafting compelling performances and succeeding in the world of today’s popular music.

Author : Michael Campbell
Publisher : Schirmer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Beat Goes on written by Michael Campbell and published by Schirmer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A one-volume survey of American popular music from the post-Civil War era to today. Intended for an introductory course on American popular music, it proceeds chronologically, taking a listening approach to the material." P. [4] of cover.

Author : Larry Starr
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 0077414985
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Popular Music written by Larry Starr and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: